Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-07-05

TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1881.
ESTATES OF LORDS.

AcLIMPsE or THE GREAT COUNTRY
HOMES or TITLED ENGLIsHMEN.
How Palace In the Town and . Para
disc In the Country Are Maintained
Warnings to Trespassers-A Few Crit
isisms.
The great country homes of rich and
titled Eng, ishmen are something stagger-
ing. Amos anybody has sense enough
to know that dukes and lesser gentry live
In better style than most folks, but how
many who have not seen one Of these es-
tates realize their immensity? How many
chance to know that IN English noblcman
often resides ii an edifice whose main door
is two miles from the front gate? Do not
begin comparing such place mentally
with single holdings in America like the
old Sullivan farm In Illinois, There isn't
even this JUNCTION for Yankee pride, for
these homes are not farms at all, but vast
Enclosures Of garden. field, hill, vale,
meadow, copse, and forest solely for the en-
Nothing is usually ssraisesl'' Oh them ex-
cept what may be used BY he immediate
residents, their servants, and stock.
The income for the maintenance Of
such a home comes from outside rents,
for the poSSeSSOr OF a castle set in the
midst of a private park ten square miles
in extent may also own a huge slice in the
\ heart OF London, half dozen villages in
the neighborhoOd of his home and two
thirds of q county in Ireland. It is with
the enormous rentals squeezed out of
these that palace in town and paradise
III the country quite as large and probably
much finer than the original Eden are
maintained. have driven through parks
owned by plain misters; one actually be-.
longed to Smith-it was stColebrookp
near Tunbridge Wells-larger than Lin
coin park, while have also been in the
domains of more distinguished parties
whose grounds, with the adjoining de-
mesne, would afford more than room
enough for the whole city of Chicago.
Fridge Park in the heart of Kent, home
Of the Marquis of Abergayenny, just seen,
is, with the accompanying contiguous
property, seven miles long by five wide.
The pleasure part alone contains $500
acres.
NOT FOR THE PUBLIC.
This and similar estates are not open to
the public, though portions of many Of
them can be seen on stated days. They
are entirely for the comfort of my lord
and family and such friends as they may
choose to invite to walk, ride, drive, shoot
and otherwise disport therein. Some OF
the cunning grounds, left wild only that
his lordship and cronies may in fall and
winter pop over lhe tenderly preserved
pleasant and grouse, are extensive
enough to build towns upon. How would
the American sportsman, accustomed to
ramming right into any farmers woods
and fields in quest of his prairie chicken
and partridge, like that? A little figuring
and inquiry make 1t possible to learn who
is the steward In charge of almost any
one Of these grand Enclosures, and from
him admission to the parks is usually OBJ
tainable. But otherwise boards duly let
tered are up everywhere, warning away
he trespasser and giving him careful mo-
Ice that il he is u man he will be prose-
s1ted; if cat, destroyed.
II The buildings in the vicinage belonging
to the estate are often marked by the
rest or else the initial Of the owner, and
Tor Beaufort, .C'' for Cairnes, ssD,' for
evonshire, and so ON through the whole
,eerage alphabet, may be seen upon a
majority Of the cottages, ale houses and
Dther structures for miles around. a
friend was telling me that on his first
visit to the English country he struck into
aG'' neighborhuod- Grafton, Green
VILE, Gainsborough or Cover, It doesn't